Japanese Guts Are Made for Sushi

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http://news.sciencemag.org/biology/2010/04/japanese-guts-are-made-sushi

"Americans don't have the guts for sushi. At least that's the implication of a new study, which finds that Japanese people harbor enzymes in their intestinal bacteria that help them digest seaweed--enzymes that North Americans lack. What's more, Japanese may have first acquired these enzymes by eating bacteria that thrive on seaweed in the open ocean. "

[van]

great find!,,,,  seems though if one eat seaweed that was raw everyone would pick up these seaweed bacteria.   I also think like developing lactose digesting bacteria, one needs to continue with constant feeding of lactose to insure steady supply to those bacteria to prevent die-off